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Dutch military police who shot a man armed with a large knife Monday night at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport and arrested another man say they do not believe a terrorist motive was behind the incidentByThe Associated PressOctober 6, 2020, 9:45 AM• 1 min readShare to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this articleTHE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Dutch military police who shot a man armed with a large knife at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport and arrested another man said Tuesday that they do not believe a terrorist motive was behind the incident.The Marechaussee police said in a tweet late Monday night that the man was shot in the leg after ignoring repeated calls to put down the knife in Schiphol's departures hall.The force said in another tweet Tuesday that the man brandishing the knife was a 27-year-old T...

Belgian police shot and injured a man who attacked one of the officers with a knife on Monday in a northern neighborhood of the capital city, Brussels. "The man attacked one of our colleagues with a knife," slightly wounding the officer on the head, said Brussels police spokeswoman Ilse Van De Keere. Van De Keere said that a second officer shot the attacker and "seriously wounded him." She said that the full details of the incident were not immediately clear. A local resident, who would only identify himself as Aziz, told The Associated Press that he heard at least two shots. "I heard a gunshot. Then two or three. Then a guy fell down on the ground and the police were shouting 'drop the knife, drop the knife,' and the guy fell on the ground." The incident happened near a park where migra...

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Dutch military police shoot knife-wielding man at airport

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